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Congress just passed a bill to increase our military budget by $60 billion so there must be a lot of 'new and exciting' things coming in warfare..

kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
Yep. It's a bull market right now.
cmurf 9y ago
There's always plenty of other people's money for blowing other people's shit up on the other side of the planet. This is not patriotism, it's jingoism. And at one time war profiteering got people hanged. But now, militarism is a product like any other, and subject to a grand markup. It's a brilliant way to redistribute wealth, not least of which is the massive asset destruction involved ($1 million dollar bombs are assets, they blow up, and they blow up people's houses in places we don't give a fuck about - see all the bombs we're selling to Saudi Arabia who then bomb the crap out of people's apartments in Yemen.) It's totally lost on Americans, but "Made in the USA" on the bombs other countries buy and then use against their adversaries is not lost on people who reap the destruction. Americans have forgotten how we ran out of shit to blow up during the Korean war, so we decided to blow up their dams in order to flood entire villages down stream. This is after the Geneva conventions were signed. The idea the United States is a peaceful country is very tenuous. So I sent a note to my Congresscritter Cory Gardner, over a month ago about JWST and WFIRST with a really simple question, if he supported their continued funding to project completion. I included this link with it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/20/cancelling-wfirst-will-permanently-ruin-nasa/#38e55b7457b0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/20/canc... The response I got was a POS canned non-response to the question. But at the same time he talked up how great Colorado aerospace is, pretty much making it sound like if the juice doesn't come to Colorado, he doesn't give crap about aerospace. But he doesn't have the integrity to actually commit one way or another to these two projects. It's disappointing.

kevin_thibedeau 9y ago

Yep. It's a bull market right now.

cmurf 9y ago

There's always plenty of other people's money for blowing other people's shit up on the other side of the planet. This is not patriotism, it's jingoism. And at one time war profiteering got people hanged. But now, militarism is a product like any other, and subject to a grand markup. It's a brilliant way to redistribute wealth, not least of which is the massive asset destruction involved ($1 million dollar bombs are assets, they blow up, and they blow up people's houses in places we don't give a fuck about - see all the bombs we're selling to Saudi Arabia who then bomb the crap out of people's apartments in Yemen.) It's totally lost on Americans, but "Made in the USA" on the bombs other countries buy and then use against their adversaries is not lost on people who reap the destruction. Americans have forgotten how we ran out of shit to blow up during the Korean war, so we decided to blow up their dams in order to flood entire villages down stream. This is after the Geneva conventions were signed. The idea the United States is a peaceful country is very tenuous. So I sent a note to my Congresscritter Cory Gardner, over a month ago about JWST and WFIRST with a really simple question, if he supported their continued funding to project completion. I included this link with it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/20/cancelling-wfirst-will-permanently-ruin-nasa/#38e55b7457b0 https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/20/canc... The response I got was a POS canned non-response to the question. But at the same time he talked up how great Colorado aerospace is, pretty much making it sound like if the juice doesn't come to Colorado, he doesn't give crap about aerospace. But he doesn't have the integrity to actually commit one way or another to these two projects. It's disappointing.